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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Scientific publications certainly haven't moved from latex to pdf, they're still latex, PDF is simply the latex rendered. And eventually, hopefully, MathML will mean that even scientific documents can be rendered in a reflowable manner.
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You are absolutely right from a technical point of view (many people still write in Latex since it's such a cult editor, and of course it's free - when I was in academia I hated it
), but I remember not that many years ago when I had to install a dvi viewer and maybe even a latex compiler to read the papers of interest to me (I still like to keep up with this or that development even though I left academia many years ago) while today pretty much anything is available in pdf, so in a measurable way pdf made lots of inroads.
Now I do not particularly like pdf and positively loathe it for text based fiction where it's not needed, but I think it's here to stay for a while whatever its weaknesses.